Email Author Steven Leigh Morris

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Theater Reviews

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Guerillas in our Midst"

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2007 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Theater 2007: Listing Toward the Valley

  published December 27, 2007

  A couple of random observations on local theater in 2007. The Valley is rising, and so are the beaches, to a lesser extent. A trend has been... More >>

• The Purpose of Theater in Absurd L.A.

  published December 20, 2007

  In the quiet, outer reaches of Burbank on Victory Boulevard stands the Victory Theatre Center, which, since 1979, has been staging all manner... More >>

• Ed Begley Jr.: Mr. Always Right

  published December 20, 2007

  At a late-summer shoot for season two of the HGTV reality series Living With Ed, über-eco-meister Ed Begley and his wife... More >>

• Wendy Graf’s Lessons, on Grief and Faith

  published December 6, 2007

  In Wendy Graf’s play Lessons, presented by West Coast Jewish Theatre and The Group at Strasberg in West Hollywood, Ruth (Larissa... More >>

• The Enchanted Forest: Dear Brutus

  published November 22, 2007

  Until A Noise Within’s delightful revival of J.M. Barrie’s little-known 1917 play, Dear Brutus (now playing through... More >>

• En Un Sol Amarillo (Memorias De Un Temblor)

  published November 8, 2007

  Playwright-director César Brie and the Teatro de los Andes theater company from Bolivia have based their performance piece on a series of... More >>

• Theater Murder Mystery

  published November 8, 2007

  ON FRIDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 26, following the performance of Frank Condon and Ron Sossi’s docudrama, The Chicago Conspiracy... More >>

• Chloe Doesn't Live Here Anymore

  published November 8, 2007

  In her weekly Sunday-night standup show, The Complexities of Purchasing a Poodle Pillow, at the Steve Allen Theater, Mary Lynn Rajskub... More >>

• Chloe Does't Live Here Anymore

  published November 8, 2007

  In her weekly Sunday-night standup show, The Complexities of Purchasing a Poodle Pillow, at the Steve Allen Theater, Mary Lynn... More >>

• The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Boomer Town

  published October 25, 2007

  On opening night of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial at the Odyssey Theatre, one of the actors was running late from a freeway closure, so... More >>

• Past Masters

  published October 25, 2007

  Anton Chekhov must have known, on seeing his first major play, The Seagull, produced in Russia in 1896, that when his character... More >>

• The Mission Position

  published October 4, 2007

  I know people who have returned euphoric from Poland’s Auschwitz museum after witnessing the gaping contradiction between the bucolic... More >>

• Best Lookout Point

  published October 4, 2007

  If you’re a fan of perspective, there’s a fire trail in the Hollywood Hills that’s actually legal to hike on, and from which... More >>

• Hot Mango!

  published October 4, 2007

  At the checkout line in the Hollywood Gelson’s, a woman in front of me watched the checker scan her small plastic tub containing four or... More >>

• Grandma's Attic

  published October 4, 2007

  Borders and Dalton are fine as bookstores go — fresh-scrubbed, vacuumed and disinfected shrines to best-sellers and rock celebs. But... More >>

• Stranger Than Truth

  published September 27, 2007

  In December 2004, Vicky Featherstone, newly appointed artistic director of the just-established National Theatre of Scotland, asked Scottish... More >>

• Bad Seed: Burying the Dead

  published September 13, 2007

  WAY BACK IN AN EARLIER century — I’m talking, like, 1992 — camp was rolling across international stages in... More >>

• How to Wrangle a Chicken

  published September 6, 2007

  Last year, my next-door neighbor Natasha rescued a young brown chicken stranded in traffic on Wilshire Boulevard. It was this bird that brought... More >>

• Actor Slaying Rattles Local Theater Company

  published Nov 02, 2007

  Darius Ever Truly, who played Bobby Seale in Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's stage production of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, was fatally stabbed last Saturday morning after a Halloween party. Police ha... More >>

• Theater

  published February 15, 2007

  GO ALL ABOUT WALKEN So these eight Christopher Walken impersonators glide onstage, strutting and yowling and wearing bad wigs. Most are decent... More >>

• Put Your Bra Back On!

  published September 6, 2007

  “I can’t walk by a street performer and not give them money — we came from the streets, and one must always remember where... More >>

• Aging Disgracefully

  published August 30, 2007

  Excuse me for remounting the old “L.A. is a theater town — really!” warhorse that observers who’ve been here for a... More >>

• Take This Car and Shove It

  published August 30, 2007

  AFTER WORLD WAR II, the city of Los Angeles figured it would be a swell idea to provide incentives to the local tire industry by... More >>

• Through the Looking Glass

  published August 23, 2007

  Investment banker Ben Jacobson, played by lanky Ross Benjamin in the West Coast premiere of Daniel Goldfarb’s Modern Orthodox (at... More >>

• Highways stages Outflow: Where Will We Live?

  published August 23, 2007

  Like a performance-art cousin of Cornerstone Theatre Company, TeAda Productions goes inside communities and gathers stories for theatrical... More >>